Piers Morgan Lashes Out On Twitter Against Petition Asking White House To Deport Him

Piers Morgan lashed out on Twitter today after a petition on the White House’s official website demanding his deportation blew past the 25,000 signature mark necessary to require an official response.

The petition, now over 45,000 signatures, asks the White House to deport Morgan, a CNN host, for what it calls an attack on the second amendment. Morgan, who is British, has been an outspoken advocate for gun control in the aftermath of the Newtown shootings earlier this month. The petition calls his advocacy a “hostile attack against the U.S. Constitution,” and demands that he “be deported immediately for his effort to undermine the Bill of Rights and for exploiting his position as a national network television host to stage attacks against the rights of American citizens.”

In the early going, Morgan seemed to be amused by the petition, retweeting links to it and playfully urging his followers to sign. But, after the petition passed the 25,000 threshold, he returned to Twitter to bash it, calling it ridiculous and stating that his positions on gun control are not anti-constitutional but rather common sense. Morgan also retweeted a number of tweets supporting him.

Bizarre petitions have found a home on The White House’s easy-to-troll petition site. Others have called upon the White House to build a Death Star (31,000 signatures) and allow Texas to secede (120,000), so a petition asking the White House to deport a media personality exercising his right to free speech seems to fit right in. It should be noted that there are many worthy petitions on the site as well, but the weird ones tend to stand out.

When considering Morgan’s criticism of the petition, his influence on the signature count should not be ignored. Morgan has broadcast the petition to his over three million Twitter followers multiple times, so it would not be shocking if a number of the signees actually found out about the petition from him. Whether Morgan is the cause of its popularity or not, you can expect him to continue the milk the petition for all it’s worth. Its existence helps him paint those opposing him as crazy and should also generate interest in what he has to say.

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Piers wrote ““If I do get deported from America for wanting fewer gun murders, are there any other countries that will have me?”

Yes Piers. But first you must face charges of being a foreign agitator waring against OUR Constitution. And then when you are deported you do not get a free ride to the Country of your choice, you must be deported to the Country of your origin. So have a nice time facing the criminal charges of invasion of privacy and phone hacking back in England. They say they don’t want you back. But the LAW says you must go back there.

We should be giving this guy a medal for having the guts to speak out against those who would perpetuate freedom (for everyone) to bear arms (including military assault weapons with multiple rounds of ammo (just because they can).

Have we all lost our minds? LaPierre’s latest comment is that all felons who try to buy guns should be arrested instead of having their purchase rejected. What about those people who are sociopaths who aren’t on any list yet??? Should they be able to access someone else’s gun (or gun collection)??? And as for the “crazy” people, there’s a problem with the system and that’s why there not all locked up somewhere??? (But since they’re not,I guess it’s still important to keep our guns around in case we can shoot one of them if we can figure out who they are and before they do something else. Like murder a room full of innocent kids.

Give Piers a medal and smell the coffee before the kookaid of the NRA kills all of us.

Chris Vogel – You might do well to remember that our country was started by religious nuts with guns and that their “idiotic beliefs” gave you a nation where you are free to speak your idiotic opinion.

Lets just pray that they get this crooked brit deported back to britain where he can faces charges for phone taping scandal and finally put him away this criminal must be stoped before the queen of england is trying to run the US!

Thank you very much for standing up to that insane group of people and facing these idiots with nothing but the true statement. Next time suggest to them to buy some some tanks and venture out to some remote site and killed one another. All it takes is to take a look at any civilized nation and it does not take a college degree to recognize this euphoria created by the sick group of people from NRA and likes.